Brezhnev Doctrine

He scrapped the “Brezhnev doctrine” of Soviet support for socialist countries.

Until he arrived, the Soviet Union had embraced what the West called the Brezhnev doctrine, under which the Kremlin arrogated to itself the right to interfere in the affairs of faltering Communist regimes of the Warsaw Pact.

“I think the Brezhnev doctrine is dead,” he said.

Putin is revising the Brezhnev Doctrine, which stipulated that communism’s advances, particularly in Eastern Europe, must be irreversible.

And if the court ever does revisit the case, it assuredly will not be because that decision is an intolerable imposition on the “Brezhnev doctrine,” an illegitimate exercise of constitutional interpretation, or “a threat to American Democracy.”